a. Obs. Also 4–5 temper(e, 5 tempur(e. [a. AF., OF. tempré (12th c. in Godef.), pa. pple. of temprer to TEMPER. The final -e originally pronounced, became at length mute: cf. ASSIGN, COSTIVE.] Tempered; temperate.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter I. 1. It is a tempre kynd of praiynge. Ibid., cxxxvii. 5. All tempre men, þat gouernes þair flesch in mesure.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., Prol. 128. Now hadde the tempre sonne al that releuyd.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 230. Large of ȝifftes and ryght ffre, Wondur fair and ryght tempere.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 247. Slepe … vpon a nessh Bedde and in a place tempure.
